Quote#Death
Ah, well! when time is flown, how it fled
Quote byRobert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton · 1831–1891
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Wanderer (1859), Book ii: In France, "Á l'Entresol", p. 125..
English (original)
Ah, well! when time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell. Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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