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“How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged, arrows of light.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f69a62d9549dc290309e6c9f8cf78d0b5d270f9ebcae87ad810351726bc4aa04
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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