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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
Author
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Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
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New London
Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
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Rose
Believe
Sweet
Never
Name
Would
Called
Thistle
Names
Skunk
Nice
Thistles
Read
Cabbage
Able
Smell

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