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“We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,--our retrospection will be all to the future.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 306f554759e53022812603781fb7dd2d696fc428752ae4aa23017291a6b3fb00
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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