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“But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.”
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- Source:
- In Memoriam. v. Stanza 2.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5b05c68beeee8e646721ddf9c8e020acbb5c3055d70bd5f25727cf4118627eef
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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