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“A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Friend. Sec. i. Essay 8.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cd91052734c5d9f06c7232280bc02a8ab2547d9b4bb443e26e2e5d9c9fce90a3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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