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“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warm'd both hands against the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
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- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- fe6080cc60406cea22b3a7f78b2609148239fee81df1eb771f41c69b48660f41
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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