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“As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 850cb3e2be15b12b49d3ecd88615707707ef5d36a2a20796e0e2e802d7f9a6cb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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