Quote#World
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the…
Quote byThomas Browne · 1605–1682
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Dedication.
English (original)
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.
— Thomas Browne
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