| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 7592 |
| AUTHOR: | George Walter Thornbury (18281876) |
| QUOTATION: | Mans life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Jesters Sermon. |
| | Note 1. See Gay, page 350: Life is a jest and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. Life s but a series of trifles at best. Anonymous. Life is an empty dream. Robert Browning. Paracelsus, ii. [back] |
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