Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity life follows my pen. The days and hours of it are flying over our heads like clouds of a windy day never to return more - everything presses on -
Martha Jefferson, Note accompanied by a lock of Martha's hair, kept by daughter Patsy until her death in 1836. This verse was extracted nearly verbatim from Laurence Sterne's Tristam Shandy. Quoted in Understanding Thomas Jefferson by E.M. Halliday, 2001. p.50
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