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“Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b86bcec8099e5d957798f1a2e1a953f3b9e1f73fd6cf750b7a9824973ef07fd6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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