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“As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. ii. 17.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5698672910e5d105df2925a82abeea578a0a93f2cdb0560737923634e82a31f1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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