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“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 66de5b8c340f75530e6eda82f46ed78259cf67d512e1ad423269a3f226bffbf5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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