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“"You speak truth," said Themistocles; "I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; nor you, had you been of Athens."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Themistocles.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b418a93e78971d87954d88caa4d445f77126135e34ae1fa3b4fb7b9f4f6c1eef
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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