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Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back.
Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back.
Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Henry Fielding
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- Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Fielding. · page_135
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