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“They please, are pleas'd; they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Traveller. Line 266.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a38a8dee719cba618d5e6782190a77db94d48c902cb25441a1076c6812708d17
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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