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“Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deipnosophists. xiv. 46.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ccbbac5991d6bbf724d29702a4611a8e0810de2e261f62b5d7a2f85291dfad8e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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