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“My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Apothegms. No. 17.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 379e6bc6bee05a5f19fdb40ca20e363215ae1670cb3ed4754cfefd22880c72f4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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