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“Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, "What a life," said he, "is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!"”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 029cd2575bfd38ea54f2311ed693c6fb1b449d7607e704a1edf7f69ac57f5a05
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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