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“No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. ii. 13.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 256c49f8dac7dde98c12f7b9f1a6b72337494354850a38585487fedf62de0d73
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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