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“Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Phocion.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8d9212feed462f4d2fdf54cbeaa4e566382a9abeed68e5a61abfb9b172efbe64
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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