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“There is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow.”
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 83978e0623b46e338a0e8cfa2d6970f0759fd8b728ba3c1ee929ac4a84a2b75d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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