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“The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paracelsus. Part iv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1cd31bb5bc5922a17112ea098e51e727558041079b2a5c1de6f0712c47677e5a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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