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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 4533 |
| AUTHOR: | William Cowper (1731–1800) |
| QUOTATION: | Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain’d to fill. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 788. |
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