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“Make a virtue of necessity.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 4e553e43b078baa129f4b777fdf57e2f3e793010d27f9e800f3c3389f3db9d71
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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