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“Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epitaph on Gay.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7ad2d21d472ce12c9f40754eb58b5f314033e0c714e6ef3f5f764cecc2dd1a35
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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