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“The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Character of Pulteney.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 011b844aee81a5a080334f29b90f48b8721e9d84ae14e348a84029200193b9a7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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