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“No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.”
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- Source:
- Night. Line 271.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b3fcb486f51f5c7b50779e67e4daab36bc26cda6b34a265d8502f6e56fe9d817
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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