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“For pity melts the mind to love.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Alexander's Feast. Line 96.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1999c7d9b9cf12e7a42c743409dab9455e56337af2dd170bc6ab8c88797ec2b9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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