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“If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0cd09bd7c507ac7db9bb0a2b1f88b217241b49d8324b362455c2cfc6ab2fcec2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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