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“Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."”
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- Source:
- Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 17ee09f62be0baca7d05b75c230c81e102f94c1ffaad4c4e93bb35eb7d3157d8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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