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“Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 08e5565bcb7b492653b5ae5ae8ad95549131f4c79137449bcb6237ea4e1b5d70
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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