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“The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5f90d96a93239291dd2c809962d7985401d1a0999d8fbbd0a05d88e66511fc5e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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