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“It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Prior's Life of Burke.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 34ad15b73f656057d29a3847c25fac0569ea7cce4771817b80253e164ce12f01
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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