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“Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep,--there is exhibited in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens.”
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- quote
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- 2026-07-04
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- 248bb3858a040c76f1873e17df0b6bf740ae2acb7af2d2d09528704ad9e08f69
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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