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William Wycherley Quotes: Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
         

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.


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