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“Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6f28ff24ae83f0a044d8f588f654be9f26866d4819f2daf8d508bb8660fc7c60
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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