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“Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. ix. 7.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 22b2d8a0bb881c5f99e4b6862a160eadcd0550447682a772962b74771ebac311
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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