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“Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!”
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- Source:
- Pippa Passes. Introduction.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 79d4b8d273357029e70b24522be468d5fe0fb67474877bee586c1cd46586107c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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