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“Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Minstrel. Book i. Stanza 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f305bdf3721c7a171d152af79efc9d0a8a03d1b2792c895d007da76ee15348b3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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