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“In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou 'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Spectator. No. 68.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1dd5f2aac57a211c0336ecfd42b17799e914a01f5a2aa1844100b5225356de1c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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