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title: "Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciatio… — James Branch Cabell Quote #20 | QuotesBy.net"
description: "Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, - and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? — a quote by James Branch Cabell."
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> # Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, - and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

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## More from James Branch Cabell

1. > It spurred me to such action as I took, - but it has robbed me of sugared eloquence, it has left me chary of speech. It is necessary that I climb very high bec…

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2. > Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?'

[Permalink to quote \#21](https://quotesby.net/James-Branch-Cabell/21/ "Permalink to quote 21")
3. > At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?

[Permalink to quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/James-Branch-Cabell/18/ "Permalink to quote 18")

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