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“Among what he called his precepts were such as these: Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Pythagoras. xvii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ccc7256ab94f3450408dc99df5befd45f012fe6e009404b5eb2fef1fa02f718d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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