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“To kerke the narre from God more farre, Has bene an old-sayd sawe; And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0bd791ee03695bd19d2b57a94b31c7b4d12cedfbd2c0583162b5c2513f6a3fca
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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