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“Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me."”
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- quote
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- 2026-07-04
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- 1273f891cc3a5abe1195044922a8bce970ea01e0ac29ea12f89826beb9def905
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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