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“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,-- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deserted Village. Line 51.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 76e382214c370860f027b1a8b314547603fdaccb55c0a69eda12413d9ac6a5f0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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