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Let knowledge grow from more to more.
Let knowledge grow from more to more.
Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
In Memoriam. Prologue. Line 25.
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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