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“Or almost like a spider, who, confin'd In her web's centre, shakt with every winde, Moves in an instant if the buzzing flie Stir but a string of her lawn canapie.”
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- Source:
- First Week, Sixth Day.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 492d2ba2d2c3cb8824c1b73cd55720db6e1887d340fe454fd537720228103169
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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