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“There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair.”
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- Source:
- Resignation.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b48f94810131202f7a6bc335a5ca55195da77f20ef2217489f813b9b180dd87f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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