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“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!”
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- Source:
- Faustus.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- de1c8a41bd44d1297980792f2827a7350b48c1613a39da91479d4d5ca44d4ee7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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