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“Vain is the help of man.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1028b1247a0b01af6b78c31fc24e6d2a10741cbec7f24f218edb8653674070af
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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