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“Soft is the music that would charm forever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Not Love, not War.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0d55b6bedd9c741e6f18ccb4a2f5541d7c1b139209a05dbefcc4ad8d952515aa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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