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“The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.”
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- Source:
- Sonnet xxv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0f12e0933714485bb89acaff9287daae917049465e7ce73d445cfc60ed11bb59
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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