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It is all one a hundred years hence.

Meaning: Mortality makes present troubles insignificant; time erases all distinctions between important and trivial matters.

Origin: From 'A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases' (1870). Public domain.

Translations

  • Spanish: A cabo de cien años todos seremos calvos (literally: A hundred years hence we shall all be bald)

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