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“Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 844404a2acb44eb8d6ac187d5037e7b306bf61d5d861c963ab9f34cbe4834dc3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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