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“When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 277.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9103e18120088cdddc0c8191f7454ae24cdde53e6891c78f58590d54ce63c832
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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