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“Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 626e43a74f2205aa157e2903779e088c3314884ebd29a1425bf4d834f0471a59
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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