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“Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8c9da3661c559b9170351aea38d4f9f714400276378ec3c75bb9a8c0c4a1be0e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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