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“He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."”
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- Source:
- Letters. Book iii. Letter v. 10.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9c18e65baafb860979255dbab9edd7b2a0496bda559d53cb54eeb87143d3d757
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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