Rose|Roesia Lucy, of Charlecote

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“When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.”
— Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors, as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“You can't really measure the effect of this kind of resistance in whether or not X number of bridges were blown up or a regime fell... The White Rose really has a more symbolic value, but that's a very important value.”
— Jud Newborn speaking of the Nazi-era German resistance group White Rose in Newsday (22 February 1993).
“The rose-buds lay their crimson lips together.”
— Amelia B. Welby, "Hopeless Love", Stanza 5, in Poems (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1860), p. 230.
“Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vécu pres d'elle.”
— I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
“From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act II, scene 4, line 30.
“Its sides I'll plant with dew-sweet eglantine.”
— John Keats, Endymion (1818), Book IV, line 700.

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