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“I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow."”
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- Source:
- Of Superstition.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 19648ac02823476876fc82c4dde18d919bdbe5a1a333b7f97c4f8e99f59bd550
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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