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“In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 5b386d8d16f2a3b7fa1b0b3253efd6b325a44a81edf89ad1c0358d911f943a1b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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