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“Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,-- Sweet is pleasure after pain.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Alexander's Feast. Line 58.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5c933557dda8b24ed2f3328f9408008177586d8f4c6b93a4aee5edd0bcffc7a9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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