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“That disease Of which all old men sicken,--avarice.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Roaring Girl. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2543d8112aa0eacfae446390695daa826ddbd7e14f3d99edb413f1715a7a3425
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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