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“Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f9f1054f203a600307a11977ca1531a11a1d22cf6a43e42cbcf4aee31a649cc5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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