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“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”
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- play
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- 2026-07-04
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- 0a5f11d8e59d37a8560b5d00162ec77dcf8b606da2321b97cc37136f561147fd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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