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“One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.”
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- Source:
- To the Reader.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 503da3f327100ea5cd0698237f86542b669075c17000f178ad9946e8ead1364f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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