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“None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5d01f0a38b0727577e61c094a83842951fdb2a47053ab558df6d76623734bf01
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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