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“But ne'er the rose without the thorn.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Rose.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 09cd785a412151098dac683fc99439a9fa72c5b4026d6457193ec7a73d9839fa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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