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“Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 25.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 882b9120c41f0a1001949d580e9ad7cb17eb8218c4ad7c75ed3333a5ea25e421
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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