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“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 469.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cc40b4301f625a92b2258c2ae2c9123d9012b6b38ed4a65db706ccea772cb5d3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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