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“My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 85d34f09d43d993c226c6ed193fc775cebd4e329fa03742ae4798e8a32aed70f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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