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If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
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- Robert Penn Warren
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- Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Robert Penn Warren: life dates 1905 to 1989. Wikidata Q312720, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312720 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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