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“Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learnèd man.”
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- Source:
- Faustus.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 08c71399d288eca0d80ef642e22d800267989d246c3bebcc8cf9e71c9244b814
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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