A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the…

Thomas B. Macaulay
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A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. ✨ Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations. Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.
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A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. ✨ Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations. Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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