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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

9884 Old Testament John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:9884
AUTHOR:Old Testament
QUOTATION:The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Psalm xc. 10.  [text]
 
Note 1.
The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.—Ibid. [back]