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“A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,--by deeds, not years.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Pizarro. Act iv. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6d9a9039b53a2402fe9f4f997b3bd141ce1ca0091c120f0baa4fd0b6fecf6fa7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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