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“Being nimble and light-footed, his father encouraged him to run in the Olympic race. "Yes," said he, "if there were any kings there to run with me."”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d1675b746d1998b78c628f08f8adfc29d6b93bec8120aa7f1459fe456dec84ed
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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