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“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maud Muller.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 98a65cb05f227dd4a92e2ce135e0f5efa5c920f6ebc6354cf1f8b9620bba520f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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