“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.”
Cathy Hopkins (1953) English writer
“Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.”
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Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry." by Albert Einstein?
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