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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:7135
AUTHOR:Robert Browning (1812–1889)
QUOTATION:Why comes temptation, but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
ATTRIBUTION:The Ring and the Book. The Pope. Line 1185.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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