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“A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Phædra. Frag. 862.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 29716ac95144619913076c5998a3194ad6907a472fe2509c7825948a9b9101a2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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