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April Quote by Ovid

“Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine.”

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It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

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Time is generally the best doctor.

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Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

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