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“Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 78f34214f43a0092e2c649f2d53c06aeee7c49b46ebf41cfc62a3f5730b0a293
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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