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For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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