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“Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Traveller. Line 91.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f1713a3a73dfa8b24d15c7e2a42182d37780ac4e1fddfc7ac75484165bac9024
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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