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“All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. iv. 35.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 653614a8961db53ca4dac8fc89496058b3267f4a1f4ba7263c022f893bb8ca63
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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