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We live, but a world has passed away

Quote byWilliam Dean Howells · 1837–1920

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Mulberries (1871).

English (original)

We live, but a world has passed away With the years that perished to make us men.

— William Dean Howells

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