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“You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- dcd11bc86b7c3f281ff0575fd1a80ad1e41b19832a34a718b084bcf2f7ccb8d4
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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