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“Man's life is like unto a winter's day,-- Some break their fast and so depart away; Others stay dinner, then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. O reader, then behold and see! As we are now, so must you be.”
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- Source:
- Horæ Sucissive (1631).
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 700427df9a160718f3a377e91910e2ab3f0234781424273898619f25f1f6b3de
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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