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“When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.”
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- Source:
- Temenidæ. Frag. 734.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e91ddad8b4e501157731c194c4b9c57974aa305c6ce3ac44d17182e6dd4ca258
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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