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“Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
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- bae80b8978c13c626c1eadc0cdda4fa8584c92697518bd4c1ab20249b1d19d5a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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