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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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- George MacDonald (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 15 · quotation 6 · George MacDonald · The Marquis of Lossie. Ch. XL.
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