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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 30ea306f979d5fc725bd986ca865db6ebb5c9f7093c2ff252afa3f74dee76c7a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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