Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Doing good,

Disinterested good, is not our trade.

The Task. Book i. The Sofa. Line 673.

God made the country, and man made the town.[417:2]

The Task. Book i. The Sofa. Line 749.

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Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,[418:1]

Some boundless contiguity of shade,

Where rumour of oppression and deceit,

Of unsuccessful or successful war,