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“Like a young eagle who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart Which rank corruption destines for their heart.”
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- Source:
- Corruption.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ced11a68099d6c927efaf73632880033d461248d305d7287f5dddbb87f7fd31b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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