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“What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 218.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 08dbe7eb74d2b20e001f2c53847a4a3f2386c78a478f85640442cd2f1fabe46c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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