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“Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.”
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- Source:
- Retirement. Line 691.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4e9e5cd79b85a65cdf41d3ffffb86a74190a06d4dfbc3e0a6ce03d4e113ffdd6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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