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“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
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- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2f260660febe508be46f1320f1470a12bc489b7a3e5ef2a52bfe1d195ad4458b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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