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“Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Licymnius. Frag. 477.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7726141a468d18c2c9cd4735b275adcfccfedb6d3540f2a73a89c929a940a7c1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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