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“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 388.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6217f673fb12840148dbd9084897c88441d7b6eb7fd8b59bf0140e480c5577cf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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