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“Neat, not gaudy.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letter to Wordsworth, 1806.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4371e233749bc5749841efacd5812b4b9c70e42243a9b2e2a9e6d0e5cc734e00
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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