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“Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.”
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- Source:
- Music, when soft Voices die.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 743d1255674a65df88df5abb2fdb64e8b4d9124591a72f8dafc8b02a477c18be
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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