In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty …

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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. ✨ Mark Twain (1976). Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873), p.105, Univ of California Press
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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. ✨ Mark Twain (1976). Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873), p.105, Univ of California Press

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