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“For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this,-- A man that hath been in prosperite, And it remember whan it passed is.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 027ad42b6f314609ee25e120b67dedfd029758f3ba18771f75e29087c2160c71
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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