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“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”
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- Source:
- Rasselas. Chap. xxx.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 60f3ebe2ca41ae678321699949ee7559467dd99992d2a3798987b3285170aa24
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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