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“All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. ix. 14.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6f1d0dac5f02487ed49bde3cb394345f318a71060646032741c27f0bf84dbc4d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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