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“When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 03b2a5e14613bcd7d0e4ddb8bb7821ce3db468173411066042ca1cc3b3d2a184
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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