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“Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould.”
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- Source:
- Her Moral.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9bd905d2182eff4534ef937199b7085e149398b4095538905578896914e30233
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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