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“But strive still to be a man before your mother.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b1955cf608ad4b569a5bd4396da9c5049175e80fde81d7eae50b37479eee76e6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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