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They, sweet soul, that most impute a crime / Are pronest to it, and impute themselves, / Wanting the mental range; or low desire / Not to feel lowest makes them level all; / Yea, they would pare the mountain to the plain, / To leave an equal baseness.
They, sweet soul, that most impute a crime / Are pronest to it, and impute themselves, / Wanting the mental range; or low desire / Not to feel lowest makes them level all; / Yea, they would pare the mountain to the plain, / To leave an equal baseness.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Tennyson. · page_479
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