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“Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5bb74f3b7f526e09acc20ec9fc3c7498b64184b3f718e555469f36b91cbf2c69
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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