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Augean stable

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an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.

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How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and woodlot
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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