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“Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,-- A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2625afbd6839b6dc24de5fe2de3d01fd6d93cf8c70a0d3b40259f99045341261
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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