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“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Fortune.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a179a4b3d3788b2ef9b779f72cbbc457c15b64cce4e1bc4482b089a4bd446b4a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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