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Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":28},3081557,"Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nThis poignant quote is attributed to the American literary critic and scholar Howard Mumford Jones, who penned these lines in his 1936 essay \"The Ephemeral Nature of Human Existence.\" At the time, Jones was grappling with the transience of human life and the fleeting nature of artistic expression. 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