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“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2b7604eea2808fdd1f9a58ae124b5a7a698187f04d0f83d6d70ec3080ea2a31a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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