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Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? for every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.
Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? for every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Sydney Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 109 · printed citation: Sydney Smith · subject: Grief
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