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“Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes), Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes; Who loving novels, full of affectation, Receive the manners of each other nation.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0570059905e599cfe790e7e719daf3748f5b5a28a00c1a34904c33b46ea97ac7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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