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“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a9cd274ffbd53d995ba39767e6ffe14c4bee6747e59ab53d878e3cd63fb0f998
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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