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Mr Anon
Mr Anon asked in Education & ReferenceQuotations · 1 decade ago

Where does this quote come from? Even if you don't think you'd know -- it's a good quote?

Alas, for he looked not like the ruins of his youth, but like the ruins of those ruins.

-???

The real version might be a little different, this is a quote from memory.

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  • jins09
    1 decade ago
    Favourite answer

    'A sighed my name, sure, as he parted

    from me:

    I fear I was too rough. Alas, poor gentleman

    'A look'd not like the ruins of his youth,

    But like the ruins of those ruins. Honour,

    How much we fight with weakness to preserve

    thee!

    -The Broken Heart, by John Ford

    Source(s): http://www.luminarium.org/editions/broken.htm
  • NEHA D
    1 decade ago

    there is a forum called landmark education.. they said these kind of quotations..

  • REGINA J
    1 decade ago

    I don't know---The Great Gatsby?

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