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“The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.”
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- Source:
- Love and Duty.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cc9531912f2f25658fe309a15663e32b59a3cfb7828c38765662bb108c8131a5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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