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“And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own; And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Giaour. Line 418.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f4651d8d688f547e0521895149372320b03a00edb24611b903bfca0d33b8588c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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