A Dictionary of Burning Words

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1 quotation from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Life is an outliving of world after world. Where is now what the world was to you at ten years old ? God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.— filed under Life
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