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“To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
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- 2c583498a3992585c9acd6fe3fdc69a712cef2f809d2f11919906302e4feab98
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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