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“Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . . . . Sabbathless Satan!”
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- Source:
- Work.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e305fa7ed0537fa03d6ad991a1c00f6a0b2cfd6e7df3d848feabe602905bf790
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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