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“For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Boston.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 441bf92255e9048f624504c1f1b8412a64e5dc095a9645a2074e49b5eef41c61
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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