Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall…

William Shakespeare
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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. ✨ 1601 Orsino.Twelfth Night, act 2, sc.4, l.35-8.
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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. ✨ 1601 Orsino.Twelfth Night, act 2, sc.4, l.35-8.

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