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“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Sweet Sensibility.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4fe7e808e52d89b178429f848fa352f19bb4ff58fa197cef6b64a534791cb541
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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