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“We all do fade as a leaf.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- af39ce308b3e5841cd4f7c6889e9c74c53c58278d469b6182142f0a008be6851
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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