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“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c8941986ab48109fb8aba365c4cb8447dd578fc3b37dde7baad13d052ba3ad16
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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