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“'T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Saul. xvii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a78378dcca4151599ec7d53aa6b72725312799374ee71f2d958f64321772f996
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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