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“Take a straw and throw it up into the air,--you may see by that which way the wind is.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Libels.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 08c7f972306b77af73e23934418fe377b2470e1e2c5b34c30c29b7494510bc58
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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