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“Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.”
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- play
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- 2026-07-04
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- 04f9a410549d5447234beadbe3323d18edaca3198d37e3a7047c05cae0109928
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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