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“I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d94315e4f5717b974a102a798c620dd8b86e1faa02090d96e211aeee6514e3b8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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