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It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring. — W.B. Yeats

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It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring.

W.B. Yeats
1903
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1903
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Yeats, William Butler. "Adam's Curse." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
Yeats, William Butler. "Adam's Curse." In the Seven Woods. Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, 1903.

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