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“By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cc8453b8cdfccbfa930b6d8e60c41f2b006731336f5d2db9e32617884ae8433a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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