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The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
 
 
NUMBER:64141
QUOTATION:Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
Let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all.
ATTRIBUTION:John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), U.S. poet. A Song of Harvest.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
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