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“They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3472dfd4989a6ee07b954b9daf538a95e37a94af15d9332b10ae03f81d8d3b5c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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