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“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Better Answer.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5592da924d2a000c02fbe57def0ac0a4bebc8b5b955eba3e37afe4725516aab6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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