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“That power Which erring men call Chance.”
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- Source:
- Comus. Line 587.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3d96e3db38cdec8507b27f6cfc3aaedc13dca5fa2b68326018c1d01e5dd4c7bc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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