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“Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man's brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first.”
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- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 287.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 69d82f5f04f03a91c75d899805985735652d4d5999e3599412bf920ff3d79b69
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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