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“Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Conversation. Line 357.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d3d1a3778555fe2a0ef8e047c196d22913abe1a377d951290d9641bae546be98
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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