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“For Time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest!”
Provenance
- Source:
- It is not always May.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dff67848c5acb5d5c813348598f98dd9cd2048d5ec2a3fef4e28bd3da809ff66
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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