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> [To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-m-ballantyne-2/to-part-is-the-lot-of-all-mankind-the-world-is-a-scene-of-constant/)

R. M. Ballantyne

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## More by R. M. Ballantyne

> [To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-m-ballantyne-2/to-part-is-the-lot-of-all-mankind-the-world-is-a-scene-of-constant/)

R. M. Ballantyne

> [ “Boys \[should be\] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-m-ballantyne-2/boys-should-be-inured-from-childhood-to-trifling-risks-and-slight/)

R. M. Ballantyne

> [But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-m-ballantyne-2/but-although-we-have-noticed-the-ark-as-being-the-first-ship-we/)

R. M. Ballantyne

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