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“For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.”
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- play
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- 2026-07-04
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- 73b6a88b78f97ae1c4dee63c961360e1ab1120198557a5c82741623a23ba10cc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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