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“Patch grief with proverbs.”
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- play
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- 2026-07-04
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- e59a7903e75b809fd55b67dca1185717c7deec6f708f2fa4682ba945903c5c7d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.”
Samuel Johnson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."”
Plutarch
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Sorrows remember'd sweeten present joy.”
Robert Pollok
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords…”
Oliver Goldsmith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into…”
Robert C. Winthrop
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”
Euripides
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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