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“This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future,--two eternities!”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f713e0ff4a42866e253f4e99485d9c360dc9786c900ced016fa5515c08d38d92
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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