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“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ecbfed00c9a781773069cb3068b9b2363e620e6432fee63fe4988ab9494b483b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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