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“Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.”
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- Source:
- Life of Alexander.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b6861bcb6e0954130921fd4d1afe9791b07c3a4fee4ee97c85ed34c8bd409381
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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