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  • Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.544, London : [s.n.]