"Mal te perdonarán a ti las horas; las horas que limando están los días, los días que royendo están los años."
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"De la brevedad engañosa de la vida", line 12, cited from J. M. Cohen (ed.) The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962) p. 278. Translation from the same source.
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