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“Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 310359729a362bb811cf3b4998b822af654b3dd3ddb32a31ced65660bb04b95c
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“The best of prophets of the future is the past.”
Lord Byron
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as…”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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