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“Slight not what 's near through aiming at what 's far.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Rhesus. 482.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 368d27f73b7d3528c80efe1515c7161f64e18e337cfaac21e40a9119cac7b9f5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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