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NUMBER:64157
QUOTATION:For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
ATTRIBUTION:John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), U.S. poet. repr. In The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, ed. W. Garrett Horder (1911). Maud Muller, l. 105-6 (1856).
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