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Adolpha
Daughter of General Kleiner, governor of Prague and wife of
Idenstein.
Her only fault was “excess of too sweet nature, which ever made
another's grief her own.”
—Knowles: Maid of Mariendorpt (1838).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Adolpha from Infoplease:
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