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“The precious porcelain of human clay.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 11.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d875cb9ccd8f874333c2bc803772cbaaf0060f2a4031aa99bc807cdec8d6f46e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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