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“We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 49.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b3560c5512b813ac7e2173482d0282e54574a0e036a97ed7196b6d2ff9749649
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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