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“Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. iii. 5.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e4aa72816b2fc972fed9fa9443eb99afc195290c85b05819c533aa104cb2f175
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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