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“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.”
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- Source:
- Of the Training of Children.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c189de9774b57dd54316566a07d6ea34c022696f9645c2a36f2887a32c0dfc9c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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