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“This could but have happened once,-- And we missed it, lost it forever.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Youth and Art. xvii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 623b0c3ab59fd7dfbc4a2d73b019132bb7b3e64bb95cbdfa0475d5a4a22edb78
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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