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“There goes the parson, O illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 16293df10eef47fa530135a0c512d20c03b004bf53788670675232079b6612a3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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