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“We spend our years as a tale that is told.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 33c0059be731b743fade22505518585817b1613b9a653b644fd548611f3f2148
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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