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“Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales, And the good suffers while the bad prevails.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 45f3fb1bd7bb7e445a2595e3c88ca45f689a6259f63d23746c7d40269c909e9e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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