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“A bad beginning makes a bad ending.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Æolus. Frag. 32.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 83dbabfab5c183da9a3e0e648fd21b40594fc806f081f6b24d62a2cdc7813f63
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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