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“It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0c978ed53dab1a4986d6eaa42b4659423d32a5801c2f969ffb1ae2859ae04f6d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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