The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.
LOUIS XIV
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Louis XIV20 quotes“The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.”
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