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“"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."”
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- Source:
- Rasselas. Chap. iii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4ee6a3bcc2653dc24ae6c6250e8c8cda9bfd939d04399aeb578cb8b682b968fd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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