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“Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e68e14d7fb6d9f82425fb3ad1d61d0607525830ce83bbccdf91165a29ec08dbc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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