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“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. ii. 5.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- acf7ccd435cccbe13923d0ee2e5a9319808968b998bf86c2bcf90e73fdbf8fa1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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