“This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”

— Anna Laetitia Barbauld

A Summer's Evening Meditation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English author 1743–1825

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