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“A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.”
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- Source:
- From Anacreon, vii. Gold.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1b99b52fda1fb64b9638ea7ea26d97fae49b1eedccbc779da71d5a1720620b23
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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