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“But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.”
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- Source:
- Character of the Happy Warrior.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 994738ed6308c84f86ff319d3cdf4cccc98cd5e0415ab568565fbd6229675a0a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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