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“Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epistle to a Young Friend.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4f40e00a56ae6df245268e158bd14bef16eac789b71ba6b0ac3aba5d7fc895b8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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