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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2285
AUTHOR:Francis Quarles (1592–1644)
QUOTATION:The slender debt to Nature ’s quickly paid, 1
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
ATTRIBUTION:Book ii. Emblem 13.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.—Euripides: Alcestis, line 418. [back]
 

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