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“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 90922cd658fa71d62625ea77dcc91b072c35ce4fd4e3013353eda5940a0e5e61
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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