No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.
 Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism (1891). copy citation

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Author Arthur Schopenhauer
Source Studies in Pessimism
Topic beauty rose thorn
Date 1891
Language English
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Note Translated by T. Bailey Saunders
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10732/10732-h/10732-h.htm

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