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“To be a Prodigal's favourite,--then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,--behold our lot!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Small Celandine.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3cc76654a568f6d590b97bddc4fd382f35673fa6fcc203f3da3e5f4cd9651ac7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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