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“The best of prophets of the future is the past.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letter, Jan. 28, 1821.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a1cbb29a8af5f6d67bea6deb2e924cd552294068fd6452ab562050490dc4b333
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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