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“Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?”
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- Source:
- The Tables Turned.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 65bfda88d00da913d48a4f7f716084520792097da5ec05972662861238bcd6fd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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