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“It is better to have a little than nothing.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 484.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1cfead41091eb5c995e659ef857aafe72f6b9ef6add1f021f022bc272d6c3993
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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