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The greatest bookworm that ever lived. He never forgot what he had once read, and could even turn at once to the exact page of any referencé. He was the librarian of the Great Duke Cosmo III. (1633–1714).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.