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“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
Provenance
- Source:
- De Providentia. 5, 9.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a4932c1a4929874fe27ad830fd74b8901adb4551b0cc9a0bf943ff1efd4fb369
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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