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“To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cef7930b3da99633e94853afcc1512dfcfe2a27b509ff6b29887811291d375aa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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