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“An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Retirement. Line 681.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 439f86cfd9366e7db2119f93c689e68d17d27d93c09136b44b2a9ca8f3fe51f9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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