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“Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 604b175da9d8301de5c724d8b0939579d827da7e18af76e01b29488164ec345d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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