“What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?”
Source: American Wife
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“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
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Canto V, lines 121–123 (tr. Longfellow).
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Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
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Inferno, canto v, line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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