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“Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- fa1cd2a19a21850c5606c4292ee79d65a771c3e1b542ac903fe68b77573b53b1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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