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“That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.”
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- Book
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 3e88505adc4de2d82b290b21ce90bd51d760d7a3c9c0eaa80e9a63055d047a64
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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