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“When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."”
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- Book
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2550d13f86b08dfc7e20ede54ed9d484d7c1b4dfc6fb830eba3c7b27c19903cb
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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