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“Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. iv. 17.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d80f737591da02ea3709b1d7e886205abfd991328a84c950c8dda0024e53cdb0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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