“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book The Little Prince
Source: The Little Prince, Chapter 21
“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
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“Doth logic in the lily hide,
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The Door of Humility (1906)
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Kunti's request to Karna, in: P. 233.
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Run for the Roses.
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Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
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“I'd be a butterfly born in a bower,
Where roses and lilies and violets meet.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer
I'd be a Butterfly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Source: Media Briefing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE2Ned5Tgwg?oneclick=true (Thursday, 13 February 2020)