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“Man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that perish.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 828cf50a237b85e9a22d87296bd6c28c8ebc812eb1ff1599a697ec0b7c5f5ce2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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