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“The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2330e69eda6fac3419530b619f252b5e61a78105a2e5628d6c0931eb032b39c5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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