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“'T is well to be merry and wise, 'T is well to be honest and true; 'T is well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 88fc2c733d4b0524946ecc9aa114b1ca89b59d6f9790b00ddc2299ad4a5bda08
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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