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“Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d79e5859538f7704951785adbac9f82eaf6752ef88208a216c1ee37d8d76542a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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