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“A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c4ef01d70e8da70d5f679bf0cb6768e91cb6ed212f260c65496fe295e02bada2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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