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“'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e20a0ae068be3175ee2026db0b9dfebfd3d598a0e7483457503cc5a43cff2c30
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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