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“Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Excursion. Book iii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cafb76160b3ecb52369242691c1b4f51ae6f5172032c4e3475e39f12b9f689ce
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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