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How Many, Once Lauded In Song, Are Given Over To The Forgotte
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How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and
how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD)
-- Meditations, vii, 6
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