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“Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs; the other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Book iv. Fable 10, 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 142f7017891387facbfb908e728d91a2bc9114e6c85aec22a0d4ce17196fc927
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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