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“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d97cf8b3aea5e517a8790ac5258725d7daf0ff09bfe14e1ae0f76933cbcd4021
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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