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“The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Rubáiyát. Stanza lxxi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b4fa37c8276638095371646526f24c550e1a63625d1c2528ebc1c9947c3826b0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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