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“The grinders cease because they are few.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2efd96d9ef5a8baa792d5b1e96a91811aaf9e218e01d6fb7f7188266a8327503
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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