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“Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Age of Bronze. Stanza 3.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2499d5d3971d4b80f61605c94ea1c571f514d41b87f3881a2942954ac0b5d5ad
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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