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“Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.”
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- Source:
- Sensibility.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5cfb36a06279192fa8852d08e95f43cd0caafcb362a7ba8da32f0cc482914df7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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