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“Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed,-- As, God be thanked! I do not.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Inn Album. iv.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2ebd648ca6d86a0e099ed2f3bcc63ac0157cd80c96078e2e886849e1bea31f8e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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