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“Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Shepherd's Hunting.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1bf54363090b3b1f9bc1be0b30af26096eaf7d51b215ab559385d381df85fcf0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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