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“All that 's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest; All that 's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.”
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- Source:
- All that 's Bright must fade.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 047403ef8d8ab2faf6873da8d8764ec400962ff4c174d6b046fe1587308cca12
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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