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“And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.”
Provenance
- Source:
- In Memoriam. lxiv. Stanza 2.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 85ad4d69b742ad0895481e203ddd1cc215f8042fc351f91fc4ca287fee8f820f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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