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No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.
No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.
Approximate author period: c. 1293 AD · medieval
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- Dante
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- Approximate author period: c. 1293 AD · medieval
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Hell. Canto v. Line 121.
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