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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 1982 |
| AUTHOR: | Francis Bacon (1561–1626) |
| QUOTATION: | What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die? 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The World. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Note 1. This line frequently occurs in almost exactly the same shape among the minor poems of the time: “Not to be born, or, being born, to die.”—William Drummond: Poems, p. 44. Bishop King: Poems, etc. (1657), p. 145. [back] |
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