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“Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Jan. 14, 1766.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d51a4ff2f6c2ca531625b9fbde9b1213106d56b6b14879a7a7bd633a1eb956bd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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