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“We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,-- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5e16fdfd34ddbd8e7e0050d67835801abaf4f8e2b01e7a9369272698e740b944
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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