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“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The White Devil. Act iv. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fe717d4b0269d4e4f766501ec9a77802f1d9fc9ae2697c411fb4151d8ace19d0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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