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“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 675.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6f6ac1c26e9b6a138412947af47288cf99c2fdf296f24cd1961ec7d139145b64
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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