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“Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6ba333424f18b542bb101ff2994ba556d4ec73c350c90c9ce547e434066692c0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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