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“Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.”
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- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 337b5a340bca2233fdbf37af94243d9da64155038d19ebe05b2a3b8859f22b0f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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