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“Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2931dbd664aa4ee86cbd8f3c7965ba606c32895cd84ed1ae766c29c98308764f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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