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“Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die? Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- ccc6408b094466e61f7d9138a1f30bf73352d283cec209c69c2f016df228c2ca
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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