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“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fc831d76d195dd1527b77dfecd7472200f915373c488e7e69a75b3000bf72ec0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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