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“We grant, although he had much wit, He was very shy of using it.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 7994adfd35cc70cbc9a176c0b8768f114f525a64946b69f4531f1e0bbedb971d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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