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“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. iv. 51.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5e1ce7ae8d4e17bf7e86fd82afd767f5987d9afa0f6c7ed597cd2e3224841b5d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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