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“Speak gently! 't is a little thing Dropp'd in the heart's deep well; The good, the joy, that it may bring Eternity shall tell.”
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- Source:
- Speak gently.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a20dfc1052dbe407d40293087a8ab48590139c59a2a7ba9395e80f153e42cb87
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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