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“It is vain to look for a defence against lightning.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 835.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fa672482fb2d4a48c5afd8385658e9523bffe5890215a095d9716a8e2d0566fb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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