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“Happy am I; from care I 'm free! Why ar' n't they all contented like me?”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Source:
- Opera of La Bayadère.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8b6b684781cd20f240e6b220e8f0405eba6afcd7ea628754543e7598c57c6b38
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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