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“Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ba8c2bbd63283921635eaa3ed8d6f168870bf42a06e5df9c0fff232a59209566
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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