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“An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain, Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again; The birds singing gayly, that came at my call, Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2b3f7668a17c727b07c2a7731ac35565d144f972ceaf93353ecda9406ec616c8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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