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“A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Elixir.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 406e4bc1df8732b33604817e3930f833fc431d5673669b2d5690fd310c2363a8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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