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“If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Comus. Line 597.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cd6f938740006e16fa2f35583da735597bc7b0974d105d2fe716d03dc56faae3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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