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“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Idler. No. 57.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 07f641e745f85a9c50bfc499d5539ce18d4d3f5a1c095a70aadd64aa5db59d58
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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