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“'T is expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Against Fruition.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 65951e51b87109674ffc60435be0ef113ee023659ec4fc7607499b12080239f0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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