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“Hold thou the good; define it well; For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.”
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- Source:
- In Memoriam. liii. Stanza 4.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ffa3d198475946e966a609f0c7158bab48b68dba9af8d7cbd6905f5651a94a09
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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