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“Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Temple of Fame. Last line.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- aa03a19596db040526095a69b0e42d346cdc0dd9e1b87924a714d01c378d1f9e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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