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“Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 62b82aad0f5c0499d8bbc37f8b2d773d9c27e9aec3274f2e192e6a5519f72262
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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