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“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letters. Book ii. Letter xv. 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f66f2f93e79a4f41d3a0240f63377f2434e23b17432749e9f059c84ed2c381a8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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