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“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ee705b3f8cdb93b144cc2aa2317eef51e9027f6d8c80571ebb61561a6b305dc2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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