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“And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 44ec495a8b9a7185c0908e28ccf6c72141e57d1657e006588273314334ed2183
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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