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“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Attributed sermon phrase
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.70
- Indexed:
- 2026-05-01
- Hash:
- 1c385709f2965c52fb8c864e6bee1c7eed8eda02162c7d3bab3debacddc1aed2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Fortune is like glass,--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Publius Syrus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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