Robert Blair quote

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair
Robert Blair
Born: Apr 17, 1699
Died: Feb 4, 1746

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