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“There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Trachiniæ, 1.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8df4f88804b59020d74b24a8d70fdaa3ff421eb7d1e8ddc37dca2a6d35e5cb18
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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