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“My only books Were woman's looks,-- And folly 's all they 've taught me.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Time I 've lost in wooing.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6be9bb1646906924e5d8fad6a5928ffc3cb82f0c6aa84ee04506c8af9173cc6e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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