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“Which makes life itself a lie, Flattering dust with eternity.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fb8f67437b154dbac5d2aab57a12e42ee106bddfb431fd1863d82c8d61eb12cd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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