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Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Herman Melville
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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