Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Book I, Canto VIII, III The Spirit's Epochs.
The Angel In The House (1854)
“A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
Une jeune fille est comme une fleur qu'on a cueillie; mais la femme coupable est une fleur sur laquelle on a marché. <br class="br"> Honorine http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Honorine (1845), translated by Clara Bell
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