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“All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 158.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3cf0fca31e900409b825502c0775ea4cc0e881203b22fdb8707ad003de0f0ea5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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