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“A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 55.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e336544f34ab6360674196b5f34e0112311dd908318ad6b8bfbe1fd6d5a526be
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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