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“Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Retaliation. Line 24.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 134636d866e3a532692f276947cbfb5b5cdae1e1826ef751fdffb5e615c0c608
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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