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He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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- Edmund Burke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
On Pitt's First Speech, Feb. 26, 1781. From Wraxall's Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342.
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