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Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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Maurice Maeterlinck
Age: 86 †
Born: 1862
Born: August 29
Died: 1949
Died: May 5
Author
Essayist
Librettist
Philosopher
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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
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Virtue
May
Pluck
Travels
Gather
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Road
Sacrifice

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