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“A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b5b87fc90f3e4e286f895ed70926bdec949fff8603768be75ac5e8328cc3759a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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