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“In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On Warren Hastings. 1841.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 825ef677ef1806047a7c1559ff1b639482ca6e2658bd41a7b4bc06525c8c1171
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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