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“Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow; Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 383b3e321eb4fdf7a605544e5413eb8cd565468907be3d49a0d9d648aab3fcc0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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