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“A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."”
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- Source:
- Remarkable Speeches.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- db355b181b1b580d0b4cb7591513783b9440bf956924e9b85bbf5db02b7d31af
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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