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Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas La Seconde Semaine (1584)

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Source: Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: " A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,—by deeds, not years", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, Act iv, Scene 1.
Work: La Seconde Semaine, 1584
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