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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 22261 |
| QUOTATION: | The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), British writer, poet, translator. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, stanza 71 (1859). On the unalterability of the past. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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