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“The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Thoughts. Chap. ix. 30.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 097f5aea9d703c731cb84790936aeae7db1269cae3deb3f760711d56f8205b11
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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