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“Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
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- 94faa3c953a9d46a28907b45a7919646b2d02a0202fd245637bcdb3162b9b56e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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