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“In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.”
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- Book
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- 2026-07-04
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- 8e6cb12e928bf792cd0a4ef56c8e6d4aad2ec304d6a42f85561dde8e8af5cf94
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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