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“Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- My own Epitaph.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e80407fe5c24e3296d2251b85da07ab8a8bf9fb882a336149b25c2a865e5a48c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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