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“While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dc6a286b3445f0a132a2915c9b3fbbd6b0d9244007af97c85d8133782293fdf8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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