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“She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8761b6fb6391074cb3c43a112597087aa5d1797bc572258b68714b4fc86545b2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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