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“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 90dbd3229b66ac3a4ce2653591d5cbd3b1dcfab95b7c6a67a95ab12ea093e286
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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