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“Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight.”
Provenance
- Source:
- To the Hon. Charles Montague.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6c963bd52d53ae55291f3d8b6f2cb80a8c63f183b42da7123f33e8ebe0d9b6c2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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