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“Our time is a very shadow that passeth away.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2e9a016c1b89b4b218b4d50a5ea60432df16bb9f227c29daf914b675658a2bcd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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