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“"I 've lost a day!"--the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fa1036ae48c065548117808126616dcbb962ca950889b66e71bc2c67b301df81
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Samuel Butler
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close…”
Bishop Berkeley
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose!”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"”
John G. Whittier
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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