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“Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Little Dorrit. Book ii. Chap. x.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f73d7876efdd125d2e370acaf1263279bff60c4370f7d6087b1c725bc0c8d9be
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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