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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Guests, In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers (1894); Complete sentence from Guests, lamenting busyness crowding out friendship. Opening paragraphs and surrounding discussion read; author’s own prose. Title-page1894 confirmed. Public-domain original; not Essays in Idleness.
- Guests, In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers (1894)
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