It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896)
Grief · anthology attribution: Cicero
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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