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“The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.”
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- Source:
- The Giaour. Line 957.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c830d35d3edcddf6b22b800d9807c39f7ea7b314fedb6f5399914cc3bb51b4f4
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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