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Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu

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Nabeel S. Qureshi (verified) @nabeelqu · 10h
In Paradise Lost, the fallen angels are able to build in a few hours what would have taken human beings many ages:

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Learn how thir greatest Monuments of Fame, [ 695
And Strength and Art are easily out-done
By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour
What in an age they with incessant toyle
And hands innumerable scarce perform.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Nabeel Qureshi's tweet quoting a passage from Milton's Paradise Lost (line number 695 visible) with the lines about spirits building in an hour what takes men an age highlighted in yellow.

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