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“Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve,--how exquisite the bliss!”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Winter Night.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bf89408235c93c05d85de108342762c83e24ebbcabb5cd475405e9c84a4de247
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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