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“I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.”
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- Source:
- The Monks of Old.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4b31392cb2a245f51f4b411a1a93ee3997ae5370e450a58ab306b0e9e08ec757
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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