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Four sentences are marked A, B, C and D. You are required to arrange the sentences in a proper sequence so as to make a coherent paragraph.

A. We can never leave off wondering how that which has ever been should cease to be.
B. As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time.
C. Nothing else, indeed, seems to be of any consequence; and we become misers in this sense.
D. We try to arrest its few last tottering steps, and to make it linger on the brink of the grave.