Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, …

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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret. ✨ Charles Lamb (1866). The works of Charles Lamb, p.237
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret. ✨ Charles Lamb (1866). The works of Charles Lamb, p.237

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