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“Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust.”
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- Source:
- The World.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fca336504b84268422c9936d244600a0b105997f84e5e38cfc4f32ceafea9aaa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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