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All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end…
Quote byThomas Bailey Aldrich · 1836–1907
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Ponkapog Papers (1903), "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 29.
English (original)
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hour-glass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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