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“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1bdd2b0a1721ac675ed01df394967708130e553fb9a4a4c986a5abd37efac019
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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