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“Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 353.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7f5cfb36ea277ce635b825ece6c7786bebbdb083552d435e4fb1d822ec86fcfe
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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