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Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
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- Ivan Turgenev
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- Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Ivan Turgenev: documented activity in 1834. Wikidata Q42831, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42831 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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