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“Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5831946e143a31e6286192046422926afb7b2b982630a0b52050ac567a1bfdbe
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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