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“Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done.”
— Unattributed
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- Author unknown.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 930c539e7ded587597679f4c1cf79cb1bdbb307ada83429f699b0290044aae2a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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