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“God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.”
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- Source:
- To J. S.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 01253bda83b830481f116896a7197c0accb2a73a1dd98c178cab177ca3d3fbf5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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