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“The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Herons of Elmwood.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7875e0a5e142cd4cdf3fad52a3ec16388b9233a37ed93a12da739763abc2d19b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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