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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
Approximate author period: c. 1862 AD · industrial
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- Christina Rossetti
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 295; printed byline: Christina Rossetti; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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