| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 6657 |
| AUTHOR: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) |
| QUOTATION: | Good critics, who have stamped out poets hope, Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state, Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Aurora Leigh. Book iv. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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