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“May I govern my passion with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Old Man's Wish.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9a1d6e470d5b5453cb376d4ea2a3da6dbf86fd9fb52b4a05430691f8ce97b968
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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