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“Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.”
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- Source:
- Be Merry Friends.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0f19d8a908884ac28502055ae957e7c349fc4db956ba666c68382805368a2a12
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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