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“His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On John Dryden. 1828.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7a38bf1426bb4775333299cf2fc49d03dbd2f4d3a834506226b2944d6de2aa0e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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