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“That best portion of a good man's life,-- His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
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- quote
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- 2026-07-04
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- 86fdcd5800ae38e07672c5a1fc980c104cdc5e6f9b4d077f7eb448c2ec8a8c30
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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