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“I shall be like that tree,--I shall die at the top.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Scott's Life of Swift.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3d3b769009cbb001ac3f8e3e84111f01262556562bdbbb5e3fb170c79d308a38
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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