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“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Eloisa to Abelard. Line 207.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 39310afb58fcde09db194da82a02a12af837452170490eade7d16a41460940fb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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