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“What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Samson Agonistes. Line 560.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4393124324c9dca2fa5b584d2ddd2ce1b87185af98e9986902edc3a424af0bf2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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