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“Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 79281fb0d6709d5b0af87d09acb0fb9e3e911198cb41cdffc1fe489d35c10837
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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