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“According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of the Training of Children.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4992366167232f55eadf01a3d0ac39eb338b46f38c7ed84af8de814db0b896c1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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