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title: "3 Died Centuries Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-cooper/so-the-shortest-day-came-and-the-year-died-and-everywhere-down-the/)

[Susan Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-cooper/)

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> [If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-brewer/if-citizens-followed-their-leaders-example-throughout-history-the/)

[Heather Brewer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-brewer/)

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> [The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-lights-of-stars-that-were-extinguished-ages-ago-still-reaches-us/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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