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“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 89.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3d873cabacca2efa321491d86e2ec7b2f4565f75cb54944d0cdb614c71c47e61
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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