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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 2430 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) |
| QUOTATION: | Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,—when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Dedication to Urn-Burial. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Note 1. ’T is long since Death had the majority.—Robert Blair: The Grave, part ii. line 449. [back] |
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