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“I live an idle burden to the ground.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dabdeb97705dcc5684bd4b764fc676e3e252584a355fdb7c56e5a18f3f696417
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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