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“We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On Frederic the Great. 1842.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4d9d83eb788508c991b38726dbd0149e2ccff31c79d6686343e548ca8994ab31
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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