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“And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.”
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- Source:
- To the Queen.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6b36f13cc05157fc4b47b48297289f2d7b7d4e3f27e01158bbb7ab872b494864
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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