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“A thousand years scarce serve to form a state: An hour may lay it in the dust.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b15cab9dbf25f0769508c3547b037f4e85052c20f7fb1579a13440867979b855
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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