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“It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Tale of a Tub. Dedication.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 246aa12b308679ed5f3d73481ebc4f21f64d8f996c4970b29d5bc6d815dd671d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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