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“His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deserted Village. Line 61.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a0f29a55d309cbb6de3de57ba03d182896e6c5c66ffdab140a2d32dad3e96e77
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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