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“Fear death?--to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face. . . . . . . . No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old; Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold.”
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- Prospice.
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- quote
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- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
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- 09e1524ef882e845083e7ed11dac6be89164a166f5f9c1cdeb8a66d2dc9abf5b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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