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“Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Poetry, a Rhapsody.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 51f66736b0914773d236c535f5ceb51a6735809832616a7672f0ef8c58379a7c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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