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“The slender debt to Nature 's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 13.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 829c76a6a716bcb15d61be0666b021a396749a9474d65d8584ec2b322801541a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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