Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.

I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

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I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed...

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