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“Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. vii. 34.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 099248f9ed3497db394c608c93f4f6faeb910c1c092ccf314af8df4a1dc79ef5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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