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There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 190 · quotation 21 · Bulwer-Lytton · What Will He do with It? Bk. II. Ch. XIV.
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