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“There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,--live in peace,--adieu.”
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- Source:
- Verbatim from Boileau.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0a87c036aa955c6232a82f7bf2ccefb6700d1ad0f2531b145edea69158d3a855
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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