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“How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fdc274f4cbd2c0d754983cb82ba9d41c8ebdd4a1ea7fb71e8bc5138dc9b58e1c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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