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“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f80c868e8d27bbc078c1466eb021fd6ed6d88f221a6e2717e3cbc2c6ae1b2d59
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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