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“Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deserted Village. Line 179.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5392c8074087675b0ed8bb1fa672a9bdcbd29bee9a4f0cadd182e14dca2c45aa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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