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“The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Jacqueline. Stanza 3.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 066b7116ca071f355b6ab58418a76b2fd13ec4783d55d921306e41170862caba
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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