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“Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 75abe94d2ca6cb5287fbf6f9e847caa328ec1abbce3377611b3c17739354db52
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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