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“He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1eef3f8bcf4c9e9b2409445bdcfa559ddbc5f23ffe62f7d7f6675fd91ee6aec1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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