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“'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,-- Stranger than fiction.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Don Juan. Canto xiv. Stanza 101.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0d668b006fa654b2043a3e74adfb4c6f6ac879a01758b96513e38300b98124e0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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