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“I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.”
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- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c0b957abbba8ef8c63ae7ca8488371b817ce75cb22c42ed1c11e43c47fd804db
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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