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“Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Discourses. Chap. xxi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 09784d2736d356c69c3c760785b7105c0725deeebcfeae6e1bd11b9ad6faf6a9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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