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And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!)
Quote byHorace Smith · 1779–1849
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
English (original)
And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory.
— Horace Smith
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