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“Ah, why Should life all labour be?”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Lotus-Eaters. iv.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 647cf629e44e8adaa5f745b06407518bbfe4bf4f58756bb3fb7256bddc63696c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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