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“Toil does not come to help the idle.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Source:
- Frag. 440.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 564062f3f0fc0ba593779c092aee2c41901a6963671eb64f83b6626ad0ae3196
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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