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Ink—Described:—The colored slave that waits upon thought; a drop may make a million think.
Ink—Described:—The colored slave that waits upon thought; a drop may make a million think.
Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
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- Lord Byron
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- Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 997 · printed citation: Byron
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