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“The dust we tread upon was once alive.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Sardanapalus. Act iv. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6e768950b9243c458e9242fb267fcea5e1bfc2af1c3e7c9e2d65bcd46b7d8cd0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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