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“The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On Horace Walpole. 1833.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- db8083af3263752c1dcc8ffa5116353480822e35a0e0c77feb0ec46608d71629
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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