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“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d7c7de41f24c935a4c85307e16863715a3436050f04148d647f5c43a473c2308
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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