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“Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Don Juan. Canto xiii. stanza 9.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 112d8fb401a7c37f42016bdb442c7eabad0d3d59f7828bc10e1f19d528cbb472
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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