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“But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Manfred. Act i. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 305f5465da525288c1bfcd619a46247a90357ebdf6b0b47cba43f60d4108aa80
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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