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“Oh, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken!”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 6c42e5febb38aa8a01b3294cf0046bc82ac37280e4944c70b338259cc9472403
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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