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“O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 22d489a169f6a8243bff59739f139106ce2dc882fd7f20f8a65d8ed2d7e7705a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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