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“What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Rabbi Ben Ezra.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 268d327c13881104b25de2eb3d272b7ba1fbff576d7257028c285f75df3dc965
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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