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“Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, And therefore let 's be merry.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Poem on Christmas.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 02e77931f6427849a0a936cce97e595d57470c68743d67dcc4d86597a1669c95
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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