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“When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.”
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- Source:
- Miscellanea. Part ii. Of Poetry.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 71d8cb579ce0fa8acc323e4140de6aa74a9e1d6977e6d4cc858b1835558cacfd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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