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“Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Expostulatory Odes. Ode xv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 77e33d9ae945dcdca2c4aeb1b8f314e45d88c3deafb43b965fa869dffc4fa2af
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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