“The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.”
José Saramago book The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 89 (Vintage 2003)
“There buds the promise of celestial worth.”
The Last Day, book iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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