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“Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,--when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.”
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- Source:
- Dedication to Urn-Burial.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6133c67e84b955fa99b18c5b417eb7100a06c7b392099d76bb555c06d1c6981e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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