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“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Alexander. Frag. 44.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eaf28234b00bfad7918bc2da0d51bbe9af856004c60dc588834152db2c288e87
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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