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“Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrument; could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious.”
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- Source:
- Life of Themistocles.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 83da121256ca9cb786dae45c0bc65d39a8462f034b630154c5cab9f9390bc342
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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