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“If I have done well, and as is fitting, . . . it is that which I desired; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1a9e87eb8a36f7a03feffadbe92e66e81d169b83de5f1ee417ee07c083545659
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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