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“Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7856af84f9e710c60e53c5b7fc5c57b4296aacb8f75a26620dbe454f4100a7e1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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