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“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Democracy and Addresses.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 63b489ab73aa818c4bff4a2900148559b0a132db7db75185fe9b5d989f929eed
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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