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There is no grief that time will not soften.
There is no grief that time will not soften.
Approximate author period: c. 75 BC · classical
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- Cicero
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- Approximate author period: c. 75 BC · classical
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 803 · printed citation: Cicero
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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