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“Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0c1a59675ec1ccfae1c2c36a1b33fefa53eb89b7e0ca4566e789a33796edbe06
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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