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“The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0013a4c5af7defa15c2cc820e340c26bd2f41d2147c20f116864f4dad0f3ea8f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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