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“It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 233.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ec6a6d427c57150b624a2bbe8d7c5d378ab494acafaf53feda2d62212bc88411
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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