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“It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.”
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- Source:
- Life of Agesilaus II.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9c7bbe6d7253871271891e69896ad66a1a8e379bd3ff9092499f143053a34b95
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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