“Sic transit gloria mundi—Tuesday is usually worse.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 12, “Halcyon” (p. 135)
“Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.”
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