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“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On the Death of Sheridan.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 656c69d5705b2bc5d5b2d90240f06ebe4d7052837e56f3351faf532301bdf297
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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