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“Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 7dcd4889bc72437b398b33827e14ed0aff7e70fe789bef5848d24b79434f9896
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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