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The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;—there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;—there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.
Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Sir Walter Scott
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- Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
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