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“Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Devil's Progress.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2413357162b030b9b92a7a4d0980c7ad201729e2e63c2ab7e4f9d34660b7abcf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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