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“But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.”
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- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4c1d78833c3534d1015d89a22f2f8ea2c7d69159a2dc4f3aef944082b6d4aef1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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