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“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 989232b881d6e0d185628c81717746f0674068dfdbc9c2ee5376b7062893b5b3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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