| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 3176 |
| QUOTATION: | How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Conrad Aiken (18891973), U.S. poet, novelist. Tetélestai (l. 12). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
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