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“Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6f2bb240decf2f50e7d2163d5db305f0df3c5bc3166adb226cc1cba565baee74
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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