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“At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a85d744937d2d223d7ea956f8b483c9f1c0720fc6192b6afd18ba130b5c01104
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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