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“Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Giaour. Line 969.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 21ac566b52be7b03dde2465c8f7269a3f18ef4a3b97c20c87346b505bca54051
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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