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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2d2b3f6fd0884397fee09ed941aa54c96b33a24999532befe64a7854baba0929
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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