Quote#Wisdom
She wore a wreath of roses
Quote byThomas Haynes Bayly · 1797–1839
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: She wore a Wreath, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
She wore a wreath of roses The first night that we met.
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
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