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“Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Little Cloud.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bbd1a9aaf0bda89b7711aef069d784090c0681bdde7077cccd3c4fe4852a9edd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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