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“Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.”
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- Source:
- A Matter-of-fact Man.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 041ac5fd672a9c7c46672847cb24838691615f77f6f6a8496951a82a2d16af39
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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