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“It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f42d224b11e26adc4c9c981d253a59ea2ec83d85418a5e04f0c87ba16b6e1359
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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