| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 5237 |
| AUTHOR: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) |
| QUOTATION: | Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy live in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Christabel. Part ii. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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