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“This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.”
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- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 293.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7ae72c01c77c54b011353bd9b58a082b2d0d4a2d22777837de55af2bee0496b3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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