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“The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 171c6b1283ebec88390c1bf3ffff81d446301ffd08aff66c36a5e29e332a05f0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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