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“Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Lycidas. Line 78.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e8875964844def545ec1b9c3213087dde46c2e3b1b5b17d33682350f0d233b8a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“A flower, when offered in the bud, Is no vain sacrifice.”
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