We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste. (Richard Chenevix Trench)

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

Richard Chenevix Trench

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