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“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 4.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e76582843f1f242360be84776d444f7f4692238eda3563ec28869a58ee2e2168
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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