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“Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 62745671738842b2ef51a79278092238640a3b571426f20392bf3a421868d2c0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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