"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young."

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Abolitionists19th-century poets from the United StatesQuakersPoets from MassachusettsMassachusetts Libertyites
Original Language: English

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Mary Garvin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Mary Garvin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)