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“This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,-- There 's nothing true but Heaven.”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 7d6a55cd54e923e6b7a967f4aa22c874488b6edb342ceb1cc70c784f8d68527a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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