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“And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Monastery. Chap. xii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3ab03b9d7513d5836b416a139e757a12bbd758579a1da48bd1678ad294796402
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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