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“Past and to come seems best; things present worst.”
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- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 126c9b6f4b9a73b4feba13a0c2aa4cb9ef911c9ec2cca3a94f2fab6532cbf743
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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