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“Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e49d6ad3348472e5cab64ef9a535543038df9802c41d94fe31a187046d732e5d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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