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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Approximate author period: c. 451 BC · classical
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- Sophocles
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- Approximate author period: c. 451 BC · classical
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