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To-morrow! That fatal mistress of the young, the lazy, The coward and the fool, condemned to lose An useless life in waiting for to-morrow, Till interposing death destroys the prospect: Strange! that this general fraud, from day to day, Should fill the world with wretches undetected.
To-morrow! That fatal mistress of the young, the lazy, The coward and the fool, condemned to lose An useless life in waiting for to-morrow, Till interposing death destroys the prospect: Strange! that this general fraud, from day to day, Should fill the world with wretches undetected.
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Samuel Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 610 · printed citation: Dr. Johnson · subject: TO-DAY—TO-MORROW
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