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“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 559.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 402673f3b8e00eed5c0a80e5490cb0c1f6363737e27f2bd882938f1f79db10c8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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