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“Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Line 260.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 814340cc8d49389cfd5a9cb384b8fd2b238af707a3a6efd531fd64e1c443fb26
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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