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“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9b776d5687da6a87a76efe7f79b0ea9a3c05864f3b9bfe7ebbaa8625065e2f98
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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