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“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epistles. Dec. iii. Ep. 2.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a88e91db2559bf1e40a024b0563d1395fee528882f69fdb81cca660c405f4929
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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