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“Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruined sides of kings.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d01c92dcc106fa24f6a0bee271ba2f879d29308df414c1123ce374e005cdee87
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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