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Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote854 · printed citation: SHAKS.: 1 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2.
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