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“Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. iii. 4.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 68469368f820ceb2e8a75b151c62be6428c6dbbfe485a480a84c792f181baf39
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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