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“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 185.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8a0a0b906f64665040a430da4b932d57e0ba1b84377c5de71ab1b321efcaf8c3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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