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“He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Anarcharsis. v.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 20ce49ce27b472eda6a9c1ce5d4306fd5dc1dea7a03aeed06ae8fbcdf44fe615
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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