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“If you wish me to weep, you yourself must feel grief.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ars Poetica. 102.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6c002234cff2e940b65d627af62cf71ed2dbb9bad05406bd350de9b7be3ca3f8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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