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“Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 1953dca9f1e3c03a7b7fffbd20f1e0be992681bbf0f5f35ba19d246df946eed4
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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