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“Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 496654693f911dc63a3373b25171278e013773f7db704b1eb11fd814787cd752
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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