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“Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind 's the standard of the man.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9ab24b99d0538d3434d068d1d0892a34afb44433f7ef0e86b0b806d70e08b051
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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