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“The point is plain as a pike-staff.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epistle to a Friend.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 608e664bd91314a77e1450e1eef17e88cc6f0c396bff9a1cb08c536016c75867
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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