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“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a686673a9cc5acb066ef645d734105c2d6af2247426028aec83f49b9e18c64f6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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