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“And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.”
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- Source:
- Of Gardens.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2d7f6c0f5a75f83a9730d176eccef7c09cbaae58406114ca0617879093161fcf
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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