| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 21775 |
| QUOTATION: | Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Euripides (480406 B.C.), Greek dramatist. Herakles, in Alcestis, l. 799, Collected Plays of Euripides, ed. and trans. by Gilbert Murray (1954). |
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