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“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d141d9c8d5b3ec1d5773810d9c0cc7d1be8788f848248bf56d37e2f02378eab3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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