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“Who pants for glory finds but short repose: A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 90d7cb23bb1fb0fbaa4e7c8f7313203f63f000169714851558b24ea2ee9add9d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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