Alexandre Dumas:

Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it deposits all moral phenomena with its mantle of forgetfulness.

— Alexandre Dumas Modern

Three Musketeers

From 'The Count of Monte Cristo'

1844

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