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“The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c83d63e2da6fe34ed6fc5b9fbed96f2111f42105dd32dde5af457088b63fbb7e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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