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“She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 17e9f326fba8e83070cd5c3049d342254975dca2d49653f025d11fc1f70ac5d4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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