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“Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.”
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- Source:
- Conversation. Line 251.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6e525605074d03f0458a25fb543e1791c91c3747688aa916e3a75f92c476fd71
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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