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“Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails!”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b8521cf7f7453f60854a9cf61816f1f1f0f388c06a663054e6b13a6d6cf92f8d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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