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“Rather than be less, Car'd not to be at all.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 47.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 754197934ee148326d38c65195dd1d23f7f35ba5acf631b5bee4b81495f6814a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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