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“The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 26e93cd386b8a74b593084cbdbd96e186904f85a991fec01d2481fc92f8f5172
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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