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“Two hands upon the breast, And labour 's done; Two pale feet crossed in rest, The race is won.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Now and Afterwards.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b01a215434afb9d79d28e45fe31c29224978c98e0c1946a420b4abfd62487d72
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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