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“O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid!”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 2ce5effbc966370200923ad9a5df1ef16ca621ac9aeb7f3cde6244490d276e38
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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