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“Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Phrixus. Frag. 830.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7cd09a513634c7c2b6374d9abef0b4dbe5967bc0f8e20e9b29ca8c79d376435d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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