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Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes: We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.
         

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.


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