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“Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 212.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bea6800aa21188ed03bee93103e32c5a7063ec87fc34be105aff22a24e6981cb
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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