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“Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.”
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- Source:
- Alexander's Feast. Line 97.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d73f4e3ab1b2141d0a57c01019962166131ff838823c21dafd2ffc9bfac8b5aa
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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