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“Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.”
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- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 90d87f3b4d9e75148e6963f95a00bce56432f7a3aec61cfb4e76862291264b77
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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