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“Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"”
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- Source:
- Lacydes. v.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d25ec40cd1218e35e2a59b1e43952b4fedbd11362bade63411bfff3ebb3fee6f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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