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“The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7a04191484f61c45af36a5a37af4083d9162f5c8c4d59c7d1d5eff90333dd093
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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