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“The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Battle of the Books.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e821b02c1580ebec1c6b7539e5a907591fcae10257bffb18851c3250fada4675
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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