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“Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Silent Lover.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 38e769d84ffb5ce84fd72b6653b198f4ba3957bb1073072c3cdc65d9aa73a950
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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