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“How are the mighty fallen!”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6f287107a45292d3a54212e6eddd2c055b54e365d556522f467fcef8bd4ae8b2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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