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“Let none admire That riches grow in hell: that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 690.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d8a83c75f8985e69c87d22fc865e5f380f20300fb51f69bb82db6999c2a2abba
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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