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“If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.”
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- Source:
- Thoughts. Chap. viii. 29.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 300ff483c53d72446a4ac9d97969c16e4f5b5386deb75a949e2b586c23f4d917
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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