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“What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.”
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- Source:
- A Death in the Desert.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ef594a006be363fecff6d84e72258d65c8bd3efd00c37198ba3465cf78636e21
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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