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“Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 648.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6583360d5afe2fc5103dd4a0abbd442adbf149a99510a7b1a77f853a418d5889
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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