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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 9009 |
| AUTHOR: | Marcus Aurelius (121–180) |
| QUOTATION: | Remember that man’s life lies all within this present, as ’t were but a hair’s-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Short, therefore, is man’s life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Meditations. iii. 10. |
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