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“To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3078dc2fad8dd39a18524cf99a211ac60cfc9f8aa8dfc15bf2bc8868113ab0ac
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“He was not of an age, but for all time.”
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“Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.”
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“We grant, although he had much wit, He was very shy of using it.”
Samuel Butler
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.”
Alfred Tennyson
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