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“A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. viii. 26.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e8c0c83f0d685fb997e318a65897fb697ee6fe82b9131dfd50c95d3f2c8b7d89
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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