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“Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.”
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- Book
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- 2026-07-04
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- 7b2e78b85ed28ce948a122907b7f948fffb691149c5c14d2e0b96122f639e432
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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