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“Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 14c6c4ebcf6013188be14b7fd70c9a1b1ba2e029f52b196d1caf51933cf22af2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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