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“Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an access of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- cecff659b5048fd665ea7e9310349c8102f0ce3115a5f258dc7d8d47ba33ba3f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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