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“How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When memory plays an old tune on the heart!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Old Dobbin.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1571e1c80d3692a3794c58b53eec78dfc5d02d14dc6757ffd09a0c9652948af0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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