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“Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 397e8035468dd204b7c098049eac76444b9650a33e88f356ebcbdf463d66372c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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