| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31446 |
| QUOTATION: | Year chases year, decay pursues decay,
Still drops some joy from with’ring life away;
New forms arise, and diff’rent views engage, |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British writer. The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated (l. 305–307). . .
The Complete English Poems [Samuel Johnson]. J. D. Fleeman, ed. (1971) Penguin Books. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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