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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:6544
AUTHOR:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
QUOTATION:                It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.
ATTRIBUTION:The Courtship of Miles Standish. Part vi.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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