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“Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.”
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- quote
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- 2026-07-04
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- b45492490116794bdfaf37195f00dc8996a8b4218cbe59815f5465363845341c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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