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“This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.”
Provenance
- Source:
- I, 232-3 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1bbbd4c9eeed78ebadc82b296d5ba56a2f2936958406eb611af1d449e82625c9
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