There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,— Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,— Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 159.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Public domain (United States)
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