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“Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. iv. 50.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4324e46f25979c4ddd47a5486181802ad839791bc2d091470cfcb797be8446e9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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