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“How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,-- As tho' to breathe were life!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ulysses.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 85039cd5637fa20c740ba42fe2532b5889044ebb0abfb47d2c953adc6c24deda
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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