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“Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em, And oft repeating, they believe 'em.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Alma. Canto iii. Line 13.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 785c45f2343775f60f3022a12b75cad8e4bf54798bf3ce4e837c90abd9f6bd44
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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