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Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished,..."

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

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