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“Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Common Lot.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2b93f926d006999345050146892959881d2a5fa6e3bd23040626fcf3978b0b14
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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