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“What 's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Old Pictures in Florence. xvii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- da83456375a4b909ab7a88ca45e50cddc97018ff44be50205b9b34cbc98a50ea
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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