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“Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 83cba643647ab367eaf6444cf1aab576287b8f187f6ac89c05d1f273a0ade041
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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