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“Life is short and the art long.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Aphorism i.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 31d0bf784d0cbad92dafd9053e3ad6ef654f07fa8cf42e4ae73296e0b966112e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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