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“Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Virtue.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ac00820dfc9899198247862c28ac0c26bce106fdfd1d20ba06a42b9e1e3e6aa8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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