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“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- dbd8902565b13d2bd80a87d58baf080305ddd1374ff05fd0d3b453618a77018d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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