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“O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 75bf40349a698700cd8f9469bd9ade39b26526a949911c84b24247f0ea384f08
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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