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“Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
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- 92cb815dca974fc68dde34a5f1d17676da31d28c933d74ca0572f4b9d2e5f13b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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