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“The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6da91cc66d4687e596f6afe754beb0688b5a0dfe1f33f72b33713fc6491398c7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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