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Josiah Quincy: “Time is too short for me, rather than too long.”

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Time is too short for me, rather than too long.
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Josiah Quincy
Federalist · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Quincy expresses a sentiment about the fleeting nature of time and his desire for more of it to pursue knowledge.

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