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“And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deserted Village. Line 263.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a6fd3b56d9876310eaebfce4f4064548946981db9edc359e98e29910dc9b9b9e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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