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“Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 52a42bbf80c57f0848d3b7ba4b908c5eaa52f8a6a4b93f3dbb4878eabd689ee4
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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