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“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fe4bf33ad4abcaa69b70de5f5c51216533a0a07ab2d1d1cb18b54276ca2d8df6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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