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“Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0934402b25ffd0bedc9c9659c3664f77b4679f87bcbcf032fe63ab5316115671
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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