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“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. iii. 5.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2dad25a0a9812f7538b344c1dc960b19cf1d8166e63dd2a3922f50df7ea3c8d4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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