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“Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear; A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8c4fb99734f8039599680660d95cef408effba9e19b0fb7d8ceb287b1db5ad64
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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