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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1003fda81da7934a34ae8a5e950ca317ae4f20c7d07e05681c15edd8e53d36e2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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