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“Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 790fc7b541093a2393edefa3236babcbfcd7a10f8292800a5d0789907e2f79d9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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