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Through this broad street, restless ever,
Ebbs and flows a human tide,
Wave on wave a living river;
Wealth and fashion side by side;
Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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An individual human existence should be like a river – Bertrand Russell

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