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“Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
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- 89d23ec5abe3e62e28735d6f1fb5c151a33364975c8b8ce816721840195d40bf
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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