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“It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Gil Blas. Book iii. Chap. xi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b15531f5e092bdd8e5fc880d70b5ce0279c670183425490d2cfd189145e41c60
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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