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“Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 34f3d5ae33de5f56fada130a07c32004f5fc36e3ed1d80f9792222136b6cd402
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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