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“Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d70f3e5e80d2e8f219982306fe356c68153000f654c08abfac2f6de891eec3e9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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