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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Night Thoughts, Night II: On Time, Death, and Friendship; Complete sentence from narrator’s counsel to Lorenzo, before Philander’s quoted couplet. Surrounding passage read. Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive text follows 1859 edition collated with early quartos; public domain.
- Night Thoughts, Night II: On Time, Death, and Friendship
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