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“I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse,--borne away with every breath!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Sardanapalus. Act iv. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c9db32fe5969e6b140492196b3bda251cf33b5e29b573815dc1e9f871e9a38e5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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