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“The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Sonnet liv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 413e00fd55f95ed0dfc04ccb302b55dd9c2032ae535c3bf64496399c678a4798
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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