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“The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Consolation to Apollonius.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dab9b5c220fd9a0adebe1b430075ceaa0655af8ea69e4adb578a1822cbc87f60
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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