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“Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 09edda03dc184e0dcbdb8f237e107c049c7f6172c573d0d94cd3f899cb03e0b1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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