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“Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Adversity.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cfa871c98fca911900409a35cc582bf80a6409c9ce3e035bae036b079cc18461
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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