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“But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.”
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- Source:
- Resignation.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d0a07c9eb1c24c206b733cb748497682dff07ff9c966b1cb6e11b834d1b7fcbc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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