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“It is only the dead who do not return.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, 1794.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 906c880cccb9758638f9cba68b6ce48c827dbe0d983698b7b85d6b3a75b1b20a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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