"Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning."
"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
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Source: Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69
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