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“Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Personal Talk. Stanza 2.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cac09b997a0b89efb841c186ba0adf66a3c0a4272990662695f8604561153751
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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