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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Vanity
Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes 1749 (his own imitation of Juvenal's tenth satire, from which I quoted in the previous post):
. . . New Sorrow rises as the Day returns, . . . Year chases Year, Decay pursues Decay, . . .
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