Passage of time

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Virgil. Georgica [Georgics]. c. 29 BCE, bk. 3.

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Virgil. "The Georgics." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 3.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 12, I. 13.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 12.

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Milton, John. Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos'd at several times. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1645, sonnet 7, I. 1.

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Milton, John. "Sonnet VII (How Soon Hath Time)." Milton: The Complete Poems, edited by John Leonard. Penguin, 1992, I. 1.

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Thales. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Thales. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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True Grit. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Skydance Productions/Mike Zoss Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2010.

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Wordsworth, William. "To a Butterfly." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, st. 2.

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Wordsworth, William. "To a Butterfly ('I've watch you')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Jules Laforgue

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Laforgue, Jules. "Complainte sur certains ennuis." Les Complaintes. Paris: Léon Vanier, 1885.

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Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.

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Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.