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“The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed.”
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- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 203a5bffead1d2577cdc23b887b5a620b4bccbcc276a0cf6d15a37d83f416887
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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