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“O life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!”
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- Source:
- Despondency.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f41e70d3a26baa945ebc25f833c72d9083b57625fe7492c1c4242426aa0f0049
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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