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“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Conduct of Life. Old Age.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2ea4dd30f50d5306a1099c72b85de2cacfcc9e69b47c41c9b5cbee35b9dce5a3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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