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“A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.”
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- Source:
- On a Girdle.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cb5baf5b751e4971cda3f8bd019688f851484a0ffabd6a7cdeb00acdf9d28e98
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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