Quote#World
Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?—
Quote byMary Elizabeth Coleridge · 1861–1907
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Mandragora, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?— Moths that a garment fret. The world is turned memorial, crying, "Thou Shalt not forget!"
— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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