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“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Friends.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 99cc5b7272aa15cd180442922bc281e620a13e01314f9e59727da7169440e33f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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