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“How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!”
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- Source:
- Meditations. vii. 6.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a911a3d735dfd2559996d300e5b1f6381de88cc45ec79111a391556ca2329da1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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