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“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 97f7d1934fa34563fbe07206ecd38fe124cdccb6b31cbf05bc474bdcc5aa7c84
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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