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“Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 84c3a0109770c23ed63a7fe9d786b1f490d59e788ba18e2340d1de135066cd56
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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