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“Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Eloisa to Abelard. Line 51.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- df3f9ff2f21c177bc6932fc1e4e7949833a0dd217c21633b202b2654d40a05ee
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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