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“To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Blue Stocking.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 77687e4ea6464cdb66c921be61322967b6a3a1368c65217cc2c84ee59feb2d01
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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