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“I light my candle from their torches.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6e8c586b030198c8a08f58f39bce910c3dddf02fcb1160f4a773212bd93aee29
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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