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“A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 540.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b2625f4c5dce0d6092014f7e6ab3a189fc8022fc5897e544ef1003173f515f22
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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