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“So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er,-- The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.”
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- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b8e13a2ea5b7db47d4c10b51c32cdd38358e2cd8f7a11e406f36e1ca7ba50eb7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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