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“The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Excursion. Book i.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1016aae92adf6a3ce06bbd7200865add46aabcdcaa7a65591d30876be6a40493
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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