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“You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,-- What are you when the moon shall rise?”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- de0848313cb0c5678da93a5011fc8540ad963c174e1c9be549311dab2e9ac2c5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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