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“You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 262.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4d459d17b5246a653a0ba541ff30ff92016549bdb922b9f2ad7a985159b10a74
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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