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“I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- f05f71f7f619af32dbe08a2430ca692d0b0393075da5757cc5533fa7b0f58b24
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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