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“Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,--yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. iv. 48.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ad484c3b37dc2824487a37010de67a0c2fd92f541bfdb761766404b8ab02766c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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