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“My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla).
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- aca184d5b36d2f9f477193399b894628f9776f0e39096ee64342d2c75326fbaf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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