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“Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Areopagitica.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4ab5d826d5b671f8a436a62c246ea26351dfab066e80d3ae4ec35e33acf0827c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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