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“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born].”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eb076809f8cf030de3e145c3fa83ded1433f377884274dcd6daa2deb05148400
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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