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“Fortune is like glass,--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 280.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2afeb267648a0473418aaf2c034f57e587b1dd92ea6c43949f7db76c3e6bd966
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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