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“Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deserted Village. Line 223.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 49494c2e05a5d4291d64deba43de8bd03d2ed53b30b977aba07a95c658d0dfcf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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