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“Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Divine Poems (ed. 1669).
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ba84600fd9a44334696cdeb0b8d5b960df9afb037d052a107e2bdcccc0c16f62
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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