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“Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of the Training of Children.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d9c4c2018eb4c602aa3aaff4af7ea3e6ea655d5d26514db864d2eea58994023b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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