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Life lives only in success.

Life lives only in success.
Bayard Taylor ↗
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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901)
Quote1813 · printed citation: BAYARD TAYLOR: Amran's Wooing, St. 5.
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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