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“The burden of the desert of the sea.”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9b5bbcf6c3493c5bd3d116b027b4ee3b49dace52776f9be2b88cb2517d7266bf
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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