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Fere lo sol lo fango tutto ’l giorno; Vil riman, ne il sol perde colore.

Canzone. (Poeti del Primo Secolo, Firenze, 1816, p. 92).
— Translation: Though the sun beat all day upon the mud,
Still foul the mud remains and bright the sun.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 302.

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