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“And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ill Omens.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3c099a7bffcbb55948aa4f1c7a5794251ffadfcd7ff6b8de66a7acd857e404d4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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