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“Never find your delight in another's misfortune.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 467.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 96fe31ca066913b812cdaa3678a49240eb6da1cbed73d05f0ddfa4317a07132f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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