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“Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 488200139ce855010188c678b667ce9d543a906482c129c89b642946af441939
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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