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“When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Vulgar Errors.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 931e5b1d5fd2fc121a18064bec8976142b2161ca6d7e635f5c7017b9c28060d7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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