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“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1ee725c3b42a14e4f7e5e807ddbfe4c7bb01a0512a9f0645b4977ca34c060242
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Proverbs
Public domain — King James Version
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Joseph Addison
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure,…”
Pilpay (or Bidpai.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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