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“Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason,--man is not a fly.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 7cf8a770a4d4dca304613404a60b56c4f4afae89e5b78f9fad20efa4530472d6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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