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There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.
Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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- Edward Bulwer Lytton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Bulwer Lytton. · page_475
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