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“The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 51e2e38a17787a7ed02aeafb2e4412ee853576866e63ec5703de6d27fd99f5d3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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