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“Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 55abaed493c1cc0e668a502af66fcadb4c93ec64b35b06987a3bdc060815d7fc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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