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“The world 's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The World.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 07a3adef339bb6f120202cbe80f52ff88376e80924fb92ae48b67f94d98b8025
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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