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“Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.”
Provenance
- Source:
- For a Very Little Child.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 731d885bd5b291235c19a9ddb6f16a854d41e5851b7181f337f53eda80c34192
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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